nicothieb

nicothieb on Hacker News

Re:A whistleblower says Facebook ignored global political manipulation on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @10:21AM (#24481470)

I believe Sophie Zhang is a woman.

Re:Soylent Month Three on Friday April 26, 2013 @01:06AM (#5611573)

Am I the only one depressed by this idea ? I mean I have no doubt one can craft a superior meal nutriment wise, but this is the fast track to abandoning cuisine and a huge part of my culture.

Spend more time making your dreams come true. Yeah right, more facebook or more tv time !

Re:How can we get Google Support? on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @08:39AM (#5524691)

Not willing to license that business opportunity to smaller/outsourced companies is regretful.

Re:Ask HN: Am I allowed to reverse engineer an Internet service and bl... on Friday March 01, 2013 @06:26AM (#5303766)

You can actually analyse most ssl traffic with a man in the middle proxy. All you need to do is to reencrypt the the data with your own certificate and accept to signing certificate as trusted on your computer.

SSL is not obfuscation, it is about maintaining a chain of trust.

Re:Ask HN: Am I allowed to reverse engineer an Internet service and bl... on Friday March 01, 2013 @06:24AM (#5303764)

I don't plan in exposing security issues. I'm just worried that if you write a post on how iCloud backs up your device on S3 someone might feel offended.

Ask HN: Am I allowed to reverse engineer an Internet service and blog about it?

Posted by nicothieb on Friday March 01, 2013 @03:44AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've been working lately with a reverse proxy to pen test our own app and I actually see some very interesting network traffic on both my laptop and my phone. I would like to investigate services I use and blog about how they work. I find it being very instructive but fear potential legal consequences.Examples of such services are iCloud, Dropbox, Facebook, etc..

( Read More... | 7 comments | 6 points | on HN )

Re:Bringing functional to the frontend – Clojure and ClojureScript for... on Friday January 18, 2013 @09:38AM (#5078762)

I also believe that web development doesn't really benefit from functional programming. That said there are two good FRP projects out there:

Elm: http://elm-lang.org/ and to some extent Meteor: http://docs.meteor.com/#reactivity

Re:Scala 2.10 now available on Friday January 04, 2013 @03:13PM (#5009578)

I fell I should link to Martin Odersky's answer to that remark: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3606591/why-does-intellij...